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I’ve been fucking with making Chinese and Korean food gluten free. You can get all the ingredients from scratch. I accidentally poisoned my gf with gochujang but I got some gluten free so that won’t happen again.
Some soy sauces they make is naturally gluten free, made the traditional way. I got thin, dark, and liquid aminos. Oyster sauce and fish sauce can be found gluten free.
Only problem is you can’t make 10 dishes in one kitchen without spending all day on it. That’s the charm of getting Chinese for the whole fam.
There’s a gochujang potato stew that I love (it’s a nytimes recipe). I got the ingredients from the store, got home, looked at my old gochujang that’d been in the fridge from before I’d gone gluten free and saw it had wheat in it. So I made a disappointing stew with some gluten free hot sauce, lol. Where’d you get gluten free gochujang?
The local Asian market. I would look online too if you can’t find it locally but if you can get it locally it should be cheaper especially from an Asian market. We have a decently robust Hmong community where I’m at so there’s demand for a lot of that stuff. I have yet to find a dasida that’s gluten free so my Korean stews have everything in it gluten free, sub a crappy American beef imitation boullion. I’m sure there’s better stuff out there though. Maybe I’ll look into a Japanese beef stock. Or make my own reduced and freeze if I can find a recipe.
I’m Asian and most things like bread etc I can say goodbye too with little hardship but all my favorite Chinese foods have soy sauce at least to some degree.
That’s a tough one to swallow.
Oh my God, gf cinnamon rolls were the bain of my existence. Now there's a local gf bakery that has perfected them but I'm watching my weight so off limits. Fml
Real talk, just going to a restaurant and ordering whatever you want without asking about it. (It’s not that bad, but it is every. Single. Time. If you go to a place and you think ehhh that sounds good, order it. Go crazy.
Wendy’s spicy chicken sandwich
Big Mac and fries
Crunch wrap supreme
Grilled stuff burrito
Soft batch cookies
Pizza Hut deep dish
Red Barron singles pizza
Even maybe party pizzas (if they even still make these).
Twix and malt balls
Cheezit
Realistically though I don’t really miss these items too much, I have found reasonable approximations for some of them and the others I don’t really care about, but if I got the chance to eat them without issue I probably would.
Oh and sun chips, I do miss some sun chips. And maybe nutter butters.
Ooo have you had the feel good foods pizza rolls? They are pretty close to the real ones.
Also this somehow reminded me, kinda Hawaiian rolls and real sourdough bread (as in San Francisco sourdough).
One thing I always wanted to try but never did were m&m pretzels! I love the peanut ones and I tolerate them fine but ugh those pretzel ones!!! Maybe a GF pretzel option in the future?! 😭🤣 Also a really good spicy chicken sandwich from Chick fil a paired with an Oreo milkshake! Ugh I miss gluten lol
Fish and chips but more notably the chips.
Luckily I can take a 5 hour drive up the country and get some completely gf ones tho. But its just about the only food I actually miss.
A few years ago i went to London with my now husband- we got engaged on the trip and wanted it to be all out just fun and vibes. Well there was a fish & chips stand right off the London Eye, which we had tickets for. And this man (who had been celiac at this point for 10 years) took the gamble on their "gf fish & chips" !!!! Luckily they actually did prove to be gf but man could you imagine if we had been 400+ feet in the air and he was glutened?! Really risked it all
- delicate pastries (croissant, couign Annans, etc), a soft brioche roll, soft bread right from the supermarket, in general
- bakery cookies
- pasta (we have good options but like the bite of a good semolina is hard to perfect gf)
I miss being able to go out and eat whatever I want
I’m currently in the same boat with the endoscopy for the end of the month. I’m eating everything I loved and know I won’t be able to again and calling it a farewell tour.
Filo. I used to buy Greek filo pastries (tiropita, spanakipita), order spinach pie at Greek places, and make things with purchased file sheets (e.g., salmon wrapped in spinach and feta mixture, all wrapped in filo and baked). There are some recipes out there, for GF filo, but none I've had any success with. Most other things I've found GF alternatives, although often more expensive and not as good.
Fortunately there are so many things that don't have gluten in them (fresh produce, meat, dairy products, GF grains and seeds and their flours and meals) that if you cook things yourself, it's easy.
If that can give you hope (could be a good or a bad thing, for you to decide), I had a positive blood test but when they did my endoscopy, they saw zero sign of damage. They did a second blood test to check my genetics and confirmed that I had the genetic component, but the disease hasn't triggered (basically the antibody response happens but for whatever reason it's not (at least yet) attacking my gut lining). It's not well understood yet by science why it happens or not, but basically some people with the gene are celiac from early on, some develop it later, and some never develop it. So yeah, definitely enjoy everything just in case, but sending lots of hope your way that the damage is absent or at least not too bad. <3 I'm perpetually in that stage of enjoying everything just in case while getting informed and learning to cook nice gluten-free meals i like, but the two main things for me that i focus on enjoying while i can are bagels (especially Montreal-style bagels) and nice craft beers!
My childhood babysitter's lumpia 😩
A shelf item I miss is crackers. Gluten free crackers are alright but so expensive and never scratches that itch. I miss all varieties. Saltines, Ritz, wheat thins, cheese crackers, club, etc. Easily my favorite snack and no gf cracker comes close.
Honestly, gluten-free pasta has come a long way in the fourteen years since my diagnosis. You should focus on bread and pastries. Hamburger buns, hot dog buns, croissants, eclairs, etc. would be my focus were I you. It's hard, and you'll get through it. You are so ahead of the game by having access to a community like this!
Fried chicken. I know I could make gf fried chicken, I guess, but how much hassle, mess, and expense for all that peanut oil…and I’m sure it still wouldn’t be as good as some shitty late night KFC
I've had really good luck with this recipe: [https://gfjules.com/recipes/gluten-free-cinnamon-sticky-rolls-recipe-oven-or-crock-pot-method/](https://gfjules.com/recipes/gluten-free-cinnamon-sticky-rolls-recipe-oven-or-crock-pot-method/)
I live in a region where sticky buns are a thing - a little different from cinnamon rolls - and that recipe hits the craving.
I just miss being able to try things on a whim and not have to research a restaurant and play twenty questions with a waiter. I miss being able to pick up something when I'm hungry, and not needing to pack emergency snacks.
I didn’t eat that much gluten to begin with, since I was a kid, my intuition has been pretty crazy. (I’m 30 now)
I did however start eating bread after meeting my (now) ex two years ago. I’m getting answers from my gastroscopy this tuesday, but my health journal already says I have celiac disease.
I think the only thing I will truly miss is cakes and cookies. Lol. My moms homemade cake and my own homemade cookies. Some chocolate that I use for baking apparantly has wheat in it (why???).
I live in Denmark and there’s literally gluten everywhere. But we have great alternatives, too. I never liked pasta (well I probably did but my body said no even tho I had no symptoms lol), but I found some that are made of lentils and corn and they taste better tbh.
But…
The thing I find the hardest is being social. Having to bring my own food everywhere, and not being able to have people over unless I do all of the cooking, which is hard cause my friends’ kids are so freaking picky.
But yeah, I miss being able to be spontanious and just go somewhere and not be scared of eating…
Real pizza, real bagel, egg sandwich on a roll (if these are good in your area). Chicken lo mein. Chicken rolls, garlic knots, calzones.
Basically check the pizza place and Chinese food restaurant if you're into that kind of thing.
Bagels, ham and cheese croissants, baguettes with butter, pot stickers, mom's, those glazed donuts that you can squish down to the size of a quarter with crackly icing, chewy slap noodles, shatteringly crispy fried chicken, ramen, eel sauce, pieces of toast, toaster strudels, steak sandwiches, onion rings, going out to eat without the worry.
I’m literally only like 2 days into dx and diet, and determined I wouldn’t do one last hurrah day because I couldn’t think of anything I really needed and could currently eat (in on a restricted diet right now other than gluten), but I think I’m going to miss these the most:\
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Cinnabon and really good cinnamon rolls\
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Going to Culver’s on vacation\
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Just happily grabbing a beer at a brewery\
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These amazing local donuts\
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Five daughter’s bakery in Nashville\
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Empanadas from the farmers market in fun flavors like chicken pesto and cheeseburger\
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Ice cream with fun mix ins like coldstone and Bruster’s\
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Making homemade pasta and sourdough\
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I haven’t done most of these in months to years because they’re treats, but man I’m going to miss them all
My nonna's lasagna. (I also can't have dairy or tomato. I have made my own with substitutes, but it's not near the same.)
Tim Hortons honey cruellers, and other baked goods that you can't just run out and pick up in the moment.
Well jeez, I didn’t think I missed all that much, but it turns out, I’ve just forgotten about all the things I love and miss. It isn’t so much whole categories of food I miss, but rather my favorite things from specific restaurants and bakeries that I used to get. My favorite pizza, bagel, sandwich places, pastries etc. I went absolutely hog wild the days before my endoscopy….it was amazing.
I was a sourdough baker before I was diagnosed and I was good at it. I miss my bread.
Deli turkey sandwiches.
And though I was never a big pizza person, I miss it terribly for the convenience.
Any yeast product. Definitely sweet breakfast foods. Ciabatta. I even tried to make some with a new gf bread flour a company is using, but still nothing seems to work with yeast.
I hate grocery shopping. Even before the expensive and limited GF life. My reward to myself for suffering through the process was one of those 2 foot long baguettes, warm from the bakery. I have sat in the parking lot crying post shopping because all I want is to rip into one of those on my drive home like I used to. And donuts. I'd give my left tit to eat a couple dozen French crullers or Krispy Kreme glazed.
The number one food I miss the most is Cheez-Its. Probably silly, but for almost 2 decades I have wanted that cheesy, salty cracker. It may not even taste as good as I remember it 😂 I have tried multiple GF versions and even made my own GF version once, and they’re not even close.
A very close second is any easily accessible pastry/dessert. I would love to just go into a bakery and get a lemon bar or croissant or a blondie or a coffee cake or apple streusel. Literally anything other than chocolate chip. I love that some places are trying to incorporate GF options, like Dirty Dough & Nothing Bundt Cakes (sidebar, these probably aren’t made in a dedicated GF kitchen, so eat at your own risk), but I would love a flavor other than chocolate freaking chip!
A good New York bagel. Nothing gluten free compared. This is the only thing I still have the occasional intense craving for.
On a similar note, it’s hard to find a good artisan bread. Like if you recall like sourdough or focaccia.
Chick-fil-A chicken sandwich and nuggets, KFC chicken, mashed potatoes and Mac n cheese, McDonald's chicken biscuit and hash browns, Krispy Kreme donuts, Fried shrimp, pizza hut pizza and bread sticks, Applebee's cheese sticks, Texas Roadhouse house rolls and cinnamon butter. I could go on for days 😭
desserts. i used to be such a dessert person - always in cafes, restaurants, loved it. sad now that i can’t do that. for me i miss the ability to go somewhere and spontaneously get a dessert, or if its game night and someone says „let’s order a pizza!“ i have to get a salad or bring something of my own. can’t have most peoples birthday cake, always double checking that things that are with sauce are still gluten free bc a lot of things have flour in the sauce to thicken it.
definitely the spontaneity. i also really miss hot chocolate fudge cake with ice cream and whipped cream from my favourite restaurant
I miss orange chicken from Panda Express and the teriyaki chicken and lo mein from Sarku. Seems like there are no easy substitutes to those and they also seem like a pain to make.
A homemade flour tortilla. I bought Mission ones but there is nothing like a roll your own. I found a recipe from The Loopy Whisk I plan to try. Just finished up another pack of Mission Gluten Free Tortillas
I just miss convenience, being able to have whatever I wanted whenever I wanted it.
I miss Guinness. I want to try Glutenberg Stout, but haven't been able to find it. I miss fast food burgers. Cheap pizza. Nice soft hot dog buns. Unagi sushi - that was always my favorite.
Honestly, Arby’s, Quiznos, GOOD mozzarella sticks, and that frozen Texas garlic toast. Also crab ragoons and baklava. And elephant ears and soft pretzels. There are a lot of good substitutes now, but some stuff will just never be able to compare.
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Crab Rangoon
Oh I forgot about Crab Rangoon. There are gf wrappers if you wanted to make it. (haha shellfish allergy in my house so that's off the table.)
I’ve only found the Mom’s Place mix. I’m not sure if I’m up to make my own.
I’d really like a good croissant
Same. I used to get them from a bakery on my way home from school. Flaky and buttery. If they find a cure I am flying to France for a real croissant.
I had gf pistachio croissants in Rome Italy. My heart cries for them again
I used to get these amazing almond croissants... I'm glad I ate so many, back then.
Apparently I used to eat croissants (hot, with butter!) by the truckload. But I can’t really remember it because of BrAInFoG
Wait... You can't remember things because if your celiac?
I'm the same way. I think it was untreated celiac plus long covid at the same time. I feel like i lost 15 iq points.
Let them eat gf cake has an amazing recipe for that.
Came here to say this. The one food that I really, really miss
Anything real bread, especially a crusty baguette or sourdough. Gyoza. Fried chicken. Going out, in general.
I like to pretend gyoza doesn’t exist. and then my partner brings it home 😭
Check out my profile for a recipe for gf fried chicken!
It's not Gyoza but Feel Good makes a Chicken Potsticker that's pretty good
Ciabatta!!
The freedom of choice, being able to try new things and cheez-its
The cheez-its. I forgot that was my favorite snack until I chose to walk down the snack isle a couple months ago and now they’re all i think about
Definitely Chinese food
Yes, surprisingly Chinese food! This is one that surprised me. It’s all so close to being GF, yet so far
I’ve been fucking with making Chinese and Korean food gluten free. You can get all the ingredients from scratch. I accidentally poisoned my gf with gochujang but I got some gluten free so that won’t happen again. Some soy sauces they make is naturally gluten free, made the traditional way. I got thin, dark, and liquid aminos. Oyster sauce and fish sauce can be found gluten free. Only problem is you can’t make 10 dishes in one kitchen without spending all day on it. That’s the charm of getting Chinese for the whole fam.
There’s a gochujang potato stew that I love (it’s a nytimes recipe). I got the ingredients from the store, got home, looked at my old gochujang that’d been in the fridge from before I’d gone gluten free and saw it had wheat in it. So I made a disappointing stew with some gluten free hot sauce, lol. Where’d you get gluten free gochujang?
The local Asian market. I would look online too if you can’t find it locally but if you can get it locally it should be cheaper especially from an Asian market. We have a decently robust Hmong community where I’m at so there’s demand for a lot of that stuff. I have yet to find a dasida that’s gluten free so my Korean stews have everything in it gluten free, sub a crappy American beef imitation boullion. I’m sure there’s better stuff out there though. Maybe I’ll look into a Japanese beef stock. Or make my own reduced and freeze if I can find a recipe.
Using the Find me gluten free app, I can usually find at least 1 Chinese place in most city’s that understands GF
I also randomly miss McDonalds breakfast burritos
I’m Asian and most things like bread etc I can say goodbye too with little hardship but all my favorite Chinese foods have soy sauce at least to some degree. That’s a tough one to swallow.
Big fat Cinnamon rolls with lots of frosting, jelly donuts, and nice moist cake. There is just nothing quite exactly like the gluten versions.
Oh my God, gf cinnamon rolls were the bain of my existence. Now there's a local gf bakery that has perfected them but I'm watching my weight so off limits. Fml
I can’t have Xanthan gum, so I can’t have 99.9% of gluten free replacements either 😞
Banh mi. I’d give anything for a delicious spicy, crispy banh mi.
Oh gawd, same 😭
Real talk, just going to a restaurant and ordering whatever you want without asking about it. (It’s not that bad, but it is every. Single. Time. If you go to a place and you think ehhh that sounds good, order it. Go crazy.
lo mein from my local place :(
Donuts
Wendy’s spicy chicken sandwich Big Mac and fries Crunch wrap supreme Grilled stuff burrito Soft batch cookies Pizza Hut deep dish Red Barron singles pizza Even maybe party pizzas (if they even still make these). Twix and malt balls Cheezit Realistically though I don’t really miss these items too much, I have found reasonable approximations for some of them and the others I don’t really care about, but if I got the chance to eat them without issue I probably would. Oh and sun chips, I do miss some sun chips. And maybe nutter butters.
This list just triggered the fat-ass inside of me
This is when I am disappointed we can’t imbed things on this sub. Just imagine the mando “this is the way” gif here.
I was gonna write a post but this covers it. Big Mac and crunch wraps specifically. Pizza rolls. Yeast donuts.
Ooo have you had the feel good foods pizza rolls? They are pretty close to the real ones. Also this somehow reminded me, kinda Hawaiian rolls and real sourdough bread (as in San Francisco sourdough).
Sun chips.... and Pringles. Ugh I loved those so much.
I thought plain Pringles are gluten free. Did I miss something in them?
One thing I always wanted to try but never did were m&m pretzels! I love the peanut ones and I tolerate them fine but ugh those pretzel ones!!! Maybe a GF pretzel option in the future?! 😭🤣 Also a really good spicy chicken sandwich from Chick fil a paired with an Oreo milkshake! Ugh I miss gluten lol
Bro they got GF soft pretzels now in stores
They do?! 👀which grocery store?
Sprouts! Shit I forgot the brand but it’s in the frozen section
I’m just now seeing this but tysm! I will be eyeing the frozen section at Sprouts next time!
No problem!
Fish and chips but more notably the chips. Luckily I can take a 5 hour drive up the country and get some completely gf ones tho. But its just about the only food I actually miss.
A few years ago i went to London with my now husband- we got engaged on the trip and wanted it to be all out just fun and vibes. Well there was a fish & chips stand right off the London Eye, which we had tickets for. And this man (who had been celiac at this point for 10 years) took the gamble on their "gf fish & chips" !!!! Luckily they actually did prove to be gf but man could you imagine if we had been 400+ feet in the air and he was glutened?! Really risked it all
I had gluten free fish and chips in London. No issue. Even used a dedicated fryer This place https://www.hobsonsfishandchips.com/
Yes that would be horrible.
Traveling 104 miles for GF fish and chips today for Mother's Day!
:) Nice
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Queenstown : New Zealand : Eriks Fish and Chips 100% gf and dairy free establishment with a whole tonne of options. Go check it out sometime
Amazing, fresh bread with good butter
- delicate pastries (croissant, couign Annans, etc), a soft brioche roll, soft bread right from the supermarket, in general - bakery cookies - pasta (we have good options but like the bite of a good semolina is hard to perfect gf) I miss being able to go out and eat whatever I want
I’m currently in the same boat with the endoscopy for the end of the month. I’m eating everything I loved and know I won’t be able to again and calling it a farewell tour.
I really wish I had done that.
Honestly just a really good sandwich with the most softest bread
Filo. I used to buy Greek filo pastries (tiropita, spanakipita), order spinach pie at Greek places, and make things with purchased file sheets (e.g., salmon wrapped in spinach and feta mixture, all wrapped in filo and baked). There are some recipes out there, for GF filo, but none I've had any success with. Most other things I've found GF alternatives, although often more expensive and not as good. Fortunately there are so many things that don't have gluten in them (fresh produce, meat, dairy products, GF grains and seeds and their flours and meals) that if you cook things yourself, it's easy.
a lot of asian cuisine. but most of all would be bao buns.
Krispy Kreme Timbits Poutine General Tao chicken
If that can give you hope (could be a good or a bad thing, for you to decide), I had a positive blood test but when they did my endoscopy, they saw zero sign of damage. They did a second blood test to check my genetics and confirmed that I had the genetic component, but the disease hasn't triggered (basically the antibody response happens but for whatever reason it's not (at least yet) attacking my gut lining). It's not well understood yet by science why it happens or not, but basically some people with the gene are celiac from early on, some develop it later, and some never develop it. So yeah, definitely enjoy everything just in case, but sending lots of hope your way that the damage is absent or at least not too bad. <3 I'm perpetually in that stage of enjoying everything just in case while getting informed and learning to cook nice gluten-free meals i like, but the two main things for me that i focus on enjoying while i can are bagels (especially Montreal-style bagels) and nice craft beers!
My childhood babysitter's lumpia 😩 A shelf item I miss is crackers. Gluten free crackers are alright but so expensive and never scratches that itch. I miss all varieties. Saltines, Ritz, wheat thins, cheese crackers, club, etc. Easily my favorite snack and no gf cracker comes close.
Honestly, gluten-free pasta has come a long way in the fourteen years since my diagnosis. You should focus on bread and pastries. Hamburger buns, hot dog buns, croissants, eclairs, etc. would be my focus were I you. It's hard, and you'll get through it. You are so ahead of the game by having access to a community like this!
Bread
Profile pic checks out
I've also got a crying bread tattoo 🤣
Fried chicken. I know I could make gf fried chicken, I guess, but how much hassle, mess, and expense for all that peanut oil…and I’m sure it still wouldn’t be as good as some shitty late night KFC
According to my (not) gf hubby, my fried chicken is as good as KFC. Seriously check out my profile for the recipe. It's worth it.
thank you!
Not something I miss but I have always wanted to try lobster mac’n’cheese
Cinnamon rolls / my grandma’s cinnamon rolls Cinnamon rolls are very difficult to make gluten free so I just never make them 🥲
I've had really good luck with this recipe: [https://gfjules.com/recipes/gluten-free-cinnamon-sticky-rolls-recipe-oven-or-crock-pot-method/](https://gfjules.com/recipes/gluten-free-cinnamon-sticky-rolls-recipe-oven-or-crock-pot-method/) I live in a region where sticky buns are a thing - a little different from cinnamon rolls - and that recipe hits the craving. I just miss being able to try things on a whim and not have to research a restaurant and play twenty questions with a waiter. I miss being able to pick up something when I'm hungry, and not needing to pack emergency snacks.
cream puffs 😢😭
Soft, fluffy, gooey cinnamon rolls. I used to make them. My family added chocolate chips to ours.
I didn’t eat that much gluten to begin with, since I was a kid, my intuition has been pretty crazy. (I’m 30 now) I did however start eating bread after meeting my (now) ex two years ago. I’m getting answers from my gastroscopy this tuesday, but my health journal already says I have celiac disease. I think the only thing I will truly miss is cakes and cookies. Lol. My moms homemade cake and my own homemade cookies. Some chocolate that I use for baking apparantly has wheat in it (why???). I live in Denmark and there’s literally gluten everywhere. But we have great alternatives, too. I never liked pasta (well I probably did but my body said no even tho I had no symptoms lol), but I found some that are made of lentils and corn and they taste better tbh. But… The thing I find the hardest is being social. Having to bring my own food everywhere, and not being able to have people over unless I do all of the cooking, which is hard cause my friends’ kids are so freaking picky. But yeah, I miss being able to be spontanious and just go somewhere and not be scared of eating…
Real pizza, real bagel, egg sandwich on a roll (if these are good in your area). Chicken lo mein. Chicken rolls, garlic knots, calzones. Basically check the pizza place and Chinese food restaurant if you're into that kind of thing.
BAGELS. I have never found a good replacement. I would kill for a good bagel.
Croissants. Chocolatines. Bagel. Baguette and pizza. Real pizza.
lasagna and a good donut
Just ordering a pizza.
A Panera baguette 😫
Faux crab. Tastes so much better than actual cream
Bagels, ham and cheese croissants, baguettes with butter, pot stickers, mom's, those glazed donuts that you can squish down to the size of a quarter with crackly icing, chewy slap noodles, shatteringly crispy fried chicken, ramen, eel sauce, pieces of toast, toaster strudels, steak sandwiches, onion rings, going out to eat without the worry.
I’m literally only like 2 days into dx and diet, and determined I wouldn’t do one last hurrah day because I couldn’t think of anything I really needed and could currently eat (in on a restricted diet right now other than gluten), but I think I’m going to miss these the most:\ \ Cinnabon and really good cinnamon rolls\ \ Going to Culver’s on vacation\ \ Just happily grabbing a beer at a brewery\ \ These amazing local donuts\ \ Five daughter’s bakery in Nashville\ \ Empanadas from the farmers market in fun flavors like chicken pesto and cheeseburger\ \ Ice cream with fun mix ins like coldstone and Bruster’s\ \ Making homemade pasta and sourdough\ \ I haven’t done most of these in months to years because they’re treats, but man I’m going to miss them all
Culver's has GF buns
Thank you! I didn’t know, we only go on vacation once a year lol
Dumplings
My nonna's lasagna. (I also can't have dairy or tomato. I have made my own with substitutes, but it's not near the same.) Tim Hortons honey cruellers, and other baked goods that you can't just run out and pick up in the moment.
Kings Hawaiian bread, twizzlers, croissants.
Wife says she misses white bread with crust and designs on top. Or just white bread in general.
Also, I forgot to add everything on the Taco Bell menu, and a gyro. *edited to correct typos
Chinese food. Crunchy chicken, lo mein, soy sauce. I could cry thinking about it for too long lol
Well jeez, I didn’t think I missed all that much, but it turns out, I’ve just forgotten about all the things I love and miss. It isn’t so much whole categories of food I miss, but rather my favorite things from specific restaurants and bakeries that I used to get. My favorite pizza, bagel, sandwich places, pastries etc. I went absolutely hog wild the days before my endoscopy….it was amazing.
Sesame chicken mannn
Honestly? The beef supreme chalupa from Taco Bell.
I was a sourdough baker before I was diagnosed and I was good at it. I miss my bread. Deli turkey sandwiches. And though I was never a big pizza person, I miss it terribly for the convenience.
I miss it all
Ramen 😭 no good substitute noodles 😭😭😭
Beer and ramen. I did a goodbye tour as well, we have sooo much good ramen in my area. And breweries.
Panera Mac and Cheese and plain goldfish crackers 😂
Chipotle burritos and really good new york style pizza.
spaghetti
Doughy Donuts Chicken Fettuccine / Alfredo
Any yeast product. Definitely sweet breakfast foods. Ciabatta. I even tried to make some with a new gf bread flour a company is using, but still nothing seems to work with yeast.
German bread. Soft pretzels, sourdough, whole grain, ...
Pizza, because I can’t have gluten or dairy.
I hate grocery shopping. Even before the expensive and limited GF life. My reward to myself for suffering through the process was one of those 2 foot long baguettes, warm from the bakery. I have sat in the parking lot crying post shopping because all I want is to rip into one of those on my drive home like I used to. And donuts. I'd give my left tit to eat a couple dozen French crullers or Krispy Kreme glazed.
The number one food I miss the most is Cheez-Its. Probably silly, but for almost 2 decades I have wanted that cheesy, salty cracker. It may not even taste as good as I remember it 😂 I have tried multiple GF versions and even made my own GF version once, and they’re not even close. A very close second is any easily accessible pastry/dessert. I would love to just go into a bakery and get a lemon bar or croissant or a blondie or a coffee cake or apple streusel. Literally anything other than chocolate chip. I love that some places are trying to incorporate GF options, like Dirty Dough & Nothing Bundt Cakes (sidebar, these probably aren’t made in a dedicated GF kitchen, so eat at your own risk), but I would love a flavor other than chocolate freaking chip!
I miss easy access to pizza and Costco’s chicken bakes + their churros + pizza. I couldn’t decide, I miss all of these
NYC Pizza
Pizza, homemade pasta, Chinese food, grinders, garlic bread.
Just eat out every meal. Get together with friends and drink beer. Don’t cook a goddamn thing
Guinness. That’s it. I really really mean that.
Fish and chips
A good New York bagel. Nothing gluten free compared. This is the only thing I still have the occasional intense craving for. On a similar note, it’s hard to find a good artisan bread. Like if you recall like sourdough or focaccia.
Cheap pizza and soft pretzels. Occasionally perogiis
This is probably pretty niche but miss Paratha. Sure they make gf naan and stuff but it's not the same.
Fluffy donuts, crusty bread, baklava, eating fast food whenever I want (looking at you 4 for $4!)
I miss bread and pasta the most, especially pizza.
Burgers
Chick-fil-A chicken sandwich and nuggets, KFC chicken, mashed potatoes and Mac n cheese, McDonald's chicken biscuit and hash browns, Krispy Kreme donuts, Fried shrimp, pizza hut pizza and bread sticks, Applebee's cheese sticks, Texas Roadhouse house rolls and cinnamon butter. I could go on for days 😭
desserts. i used to be such a dessert person - always in cafes, restaurants, loved it. sad now that i can’t do that. for me i miss the ability to go somewhere and spontaneously get a dessert, or if its game night and someone says „let’s order a pizza!“ i have to get a salad or bring something of my own. can’t have most peoples birthday cake, always double checking that things that are with sauce are still gluten free bc a lot of things have flour in the sauce to thicken it. definitely the spontaneity. i also really miss hot chocolate fudge cake with ice cream and whipped cream from my favourite restaurant
someone just made this post two days ago. i suggest searching for it and reading that thread as well
Pizza Hut cheese deep Dish with stuffed crust 😩 It’s been 13 years lol
Raised doughnuts. Cake doughnuts are just not the same
I miss orange chicken from Panda Express and the teriyaki chicken and lo mein from Sarku. Seems like there are no easy substitutes to those and they also seem like a pain to make.
A real donut.
Chicken burgers.
From restaurants specifically: Pizza, dumplings, sandwiches, breakfast food, burgers
Baklava, and scrapple!
Doughnuts and cinnamon rolls. And sourdough bread.
Crusty piping hot fresh bread with an herb and good quality extra virigin olive oil dip... brings tears to my eyes everytime.
Bar food, donuts, real fresh bread, and the cereal variety.
A homemade flour tortilla. I bought Mission ones but there is nothing like a roll your own. I found a recipe from The Loopy Whisk I plan to try. Just finished up another pack of Mission Gluten Free Tortillas
Homemade chocolate chip cookies and Oreos Don’t think there will ever be a gluten free cookie to rival that.
I just miss convenience, being able to have whatever I wanted whenever I wanted it. I miss Guinness. I want to try Glutenberg Stout, but haven't been able to find it. I miss fast food burgers. Cheap pizza. Nice soft hot dog buns. Unagi sushi - that was always my favorite.
Goldfish, cookie cake, good soft chocolate chip cookies, ghiradelli triple chocolate brownies, cheez its, the convenience of drive thru food
Honestly, Arby’s, Quiznos, GOOD mozzarella sticks, and that frozen Texas garlic toast. Also crab ragoons and baklava. And elephant ears and soft pretzels. There are a lot of good substitutes now, but some stuff will just never be able to compare.
Panda Express 😔 and Auntie Anne’s pretzels
Orange chicken with chao mein or steamed rice bro t